contradictory

英 [ˌkɒntrəˈdɪktəri]

美 [ˌkɑːntrəˈdɪktəri]

adj.  相互矛盾的; 对立的; 不一致的
n.  对立物; 矛盾因素

复数：contradictories　

高考CET6TOEFLGRETEM4TEM8

BNC.7106 / COCA.7435

牛津词典

adj.

• 相互矛盾的；对立的；不一致的
  containing or showing a contradiction
  1. We are faced with two apparently contradictory statements.
     我们面前这两种说法显然是矛盾的。
  2. The advice I received was often contradictory.
     我所得到的建议常常是相互矛盾的。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 互相矛盾的;相互对立的
  If two or more facts, ideas, or statements arecontradictory, they state or imply that opposite things are true.
  1. Customs officials have made a series of contradictory statements about the equipment...
     海关官员们对这种设备作出了一系列互相矛盾的陈述。
  2. The public are capable of holding a number of apparently contradictory attitudes.
     公众可能会持有数种显然互相矛盾的态度。
  3. ...advice that sometimes is contradictory and confusing.
     有时候相互矛盾、颇令人费解的建议

双语例句

• The promotion of official language and the preservation of mother tongues in the society with multi-lingual background are contradictory.
  多语言多文化背景下官方语言的推广和弱势族群母语的传承和维护是一对矛盾。
• What are you in contradictory? Has not been able not to want to cooperate with me?
  你在矛盾什么啊？不会是不想和我合作了吧？
• Customs officials have made a series of contradictory statements about the equipment
  海关官员们对这种设备作出了一系列互相矛盾的陈述。
• It is contradictory between people's profits and nature.
  这是人与自然的利益之间的矛盾。
• Under the socialist system both aspects form a unified whole and are not ought not to be fundamentally contradictory.
  在我们的社会主义制度下，这两者是统一的，从根本上说，它们没有矛盾，也不应该有矛盾。
• For Jung, dualism and monism were not mutually contradictory and exclusive, but complimentary aspects of reality.
  作为容格，二元论和一元论并不是互相地对立和排外的，而是实相的连续外貌。
• The public are capable of holding a number of apparently contradictory attitudes.
  公众可能会持有数种显然互相矛盾的态度。
• We all get confused about the contradictory messages that life and politics send.
  生活经验与政治口号的矛盾把我们都搞糊涂了。
• Playing different roles at different times in Chinese history, their representation in historical sources is contradictory.
  他们在不同历史时期扮演着不同的角色，在中国的历史记载中，对他们的描述充满了矛盾。
• New information can be contradictory, but facts and entailments can only be added, never deleted.
  新的信息可以是和旧的信息矛盾的，但是事实和推导只能被增加而不能被删减。